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

I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.