Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

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

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

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.

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.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.