Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.

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.

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.