Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

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.

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.

Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.

Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.

You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.