Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

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

Anger is self-immolation.

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.

The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.

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

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.