Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

The essence of that by which Jesus overcame the world was not suffering, but obedience. Yes, men may puzzle themselves and their hearers over the question where the power of the life of Jesus and the death of Jesus lay; but the soul of the Christian always knows that it lay in the obedience of Christ. He was determined at every sacrifice to do His Father's will. Let us remember that; and the power of Christ's sacrifice may enter into us, and some little share of the redemption of the world may come through us, as the great work came through Him.

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.

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

Anger is self-immolation.

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