Your life cannot be frivolous or vulgar unless you are frivolous or vulgar. He who complains of his circumstances really complains of himself, and is his own accuser.
God is as willing that you should read your lesson in the sunlight as in the storm.
Heaven at last
will be the perfect
sight of Christ.
A life with no intention
of God in it must be
shallow.
he thoughtful trader believes that Trade, in its ideal, is generous and beautiful. It is the reality that he makes of it, by the way in which he does it, that seems to him sordid.
Character is the divinest thing on earth. It is the one thing that you can put into the shop or into the study, and be sure that the fire is going to burn.
Never does human nature seem so glorious and so wicked all at once as when we stand before the cross of Jesus! The most enthusiastic hopes, the most profound humiliation, have found their inspiration there.
The only way to run from God is to run to Him. The Infinite Knowledge is also the Infinite Pity.