Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.