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

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

It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.