The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.

No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.

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

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

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.