O, do not pray for easy lives.

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

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

It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."

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.

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.