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

There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.

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.

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

Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

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