To say 'well done'to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

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

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.