It is much easier to get interested in art doilies for Hottentots than it is to be simply human to the washerwoman at home.
Whoever helps us to think kindly of another aids the coming of the kingdom of heaven.
You are not likely to cheer the hearts of men by looking down in the mouth yourself.
No man climbs to the Father by treading on his brother.
Many things may keep you from the triumphs of life but only selfishness can keep you from the victories of love.
The child of heaven always sees something of heaven in the child.
There are too many people trying to clean up the world by scalding their neighbours.
XVI
RELIGION OF A PRACTICAL MIND
Is there a faith for the practically minded man and woman? Or is religion exclusively for the dreamers and those who are contented with sentiment and feeling? These people of action, who measure by results, who have no life to waste on things not evidently useful; these who feel so intensely the needs of humanity that they have no time to waste in anything other than work—is there a religion for them?