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.

Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week.

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.