od is omnipotent, and man is immortal. Therefore be patient and work. The end shall certainly be joy, not sorrow. The stone shall roll away and the dead come forth.
Optimism is a belief in a great purpose underlying the world for good, absolutely certain to fulfil itself somewhere, somehow. That must have been what God saw when He looked upon the world and called it "good."
A hundred men stand on the shore and say: "There is no land beyond." One brave and trustful man like Columbus, believes that the complete world is complete, and sails for a fair land beyond the sea, and finds it.
Put your faith where it will be safe; and the only place where a faith ever can be safe is in the shrine of an action.
I must have
some notion in general
of what I am alive
for, or I cannot live rightly
from hour to hour this evening
and to-morrow morning.
Give our lives room to grow to truth, and they
will grow to symmetry; give them leave to ripen,
and they will richen too.
he only real way to "prepare to meet thy God" is to live with thy God so that to meet Him shall be nothing strange.