We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.- Frederick William Robertson
Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
