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.

He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the Christ from whom the freedom comes, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited.

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.

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.

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

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