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

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

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in us. We want to trust Him with a fuller trust, and so at last to come to that high life where we shall "be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our request be made known unto God"; for that, and that alone, is peace.

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

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

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.