Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

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

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.