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Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as full a beech-tree as it can be.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it ... you cannot do everything.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

Death is strong, but Life is stronger ...

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.

Preaching is truth through personality.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.

Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower!
How dear Thy Grace has grown!
From east to west, with loving power,
Make all the world Thine own.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

Get the pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself.

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Christ will rise on Easter day!

Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Anger is self-immolation.

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.

O, do not pray for easy lives ...

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

0 little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.

No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.

There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness ... Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.

Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.

The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.

The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.