The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.

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.

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.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

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

It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.