Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher helps. If he resorts to mere expedients and tricks the opportunity is lost. He comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his pain. But, if he turns to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of his life.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

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.

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

No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.