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

The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty to Him in the days of His darkness, for the time when we shall enter into His triumph in the days of His light.

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.