The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

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

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.