A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

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

There are two ways of defending a castle; one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole; the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety?

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

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