It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

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

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

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

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.