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

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

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

He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the Christ from whom the freedom comes, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.