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

No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.

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

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

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

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.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.