The essence of that by which Jesus overcame the world was not suffering, but obedience. Yes, men may puzzle themselves and their hearers over the question where the power of the life of Jesus and the death of Jesus lay; but the soul of the Christian always knows that it lay in the obedience of Christ. He was determined at every sacrifice to do His Father's will. Let us remember that; and the power of Christ's sacrifice may enter into us, and some little share of the redemption of the world may come through us, as the great work came through Him.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

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

Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.‎