The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.