Heart's-ease

Happiness is perfectly hollow unless there is a meaning behind it, unless it tells of intention somewhere, unless it means love. Eat and drink and be merry is not the end of it all.
Whoever, by a Christian word he speaks or by a Christian life he lives, brings a new soul to see the perfect life and take the perfect grace, has poured out of his full hands a blessing on his brother that leaves utterly out of sight any gift that riches can bestow on poverty.
e want a faith, a truth, a grace to help us now , ... and we can have it. One who was man, yet mightier than man, has walked the vale before us.
Every attempt to do right has a tendency to reveal to us more spiritual ways of doing right, and our need of spiritual helps in doing it.
The thought of life is like that untouched line we call the sky, but which, when we try to reach it, proves to be not one single line, but an infinite depth ... stored with what strange uses and benefactions we dare not say.
Some men's faith only makes itself visible; other men's lightens everything within its reach. There is positive proof in the single sunbeam of the existence of the sun.
trike God's iron on the anvil, see God's goods across the counter, put God's wealth in circulation, teach God's children in the school,—so shall the dust of your labor build itself into a little sanctuary where you and God may dwell together.
Make truth your friend and guide in all your hourly business,—truth of plan, and purpose, and labor... Whoever will not bow before this monarch you have crowned, let him be rebel to you.