Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is the child of God.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.

The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

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