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

It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with and trust in Him who has released us.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Death is strong, but Life is stronger.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.