Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

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

O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.