—Altar at Home.
Lift up yourselves to the great meaning of the day, and dare to think of your humanity as something so divinely precious that it is worthy of being an offering to God. Count it a privilege to make that offering as complete as possible, keeping nothing back, and then go out to the pleasures and duties of your life, having been born anew into His divinity, as He was born into our humanity on Christmas Day.
—Phillips Brooks.
Then wisely weigh
Our sorrow with our comfort.
—Shakespeare.
There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate; when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain.
A man may get to his journey’s end by the light of a lantern, but he is less secure than the man who travels by daylight, and he loses the landscape.
—Hamilton Wright Mabie.