Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.

By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

Shakespeare is an intellectual miracle.

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.

It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.

In the wildest anarchy of man's insurgent appetites and sins there is still a reclaiming voice,--a voice which, even when in practice disregarded, it is impossible not to own; and to which, at the very moment that we refuse our obedience, we find that we cannot refuse the homage of what ourselves do feel and acknowledge to be the best, the highest principles of our nature.

I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His feet, with no other disposition in my heart than that of merging my will into His will, and no other language in my mouth than that of prayer for the perfecting of His strength in my weakness.