We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

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

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

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.

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

Preaching is truth through personality.