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.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

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

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.