It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.

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.

The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

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

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.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.