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If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, Whom will we serve?

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.

Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.

Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.

Good is that darkening of our lives,
Which only God can brighten;
But better still that hopeless load,
Which none but God can lighten.

There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

For right is right, since God is God.

They always win who side with God.

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.

For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

Every hour comes with some little fagot of God's will fastened upon its back.

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

We strain hardest for things which are almost, but now quite within reach.