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

• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
• Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
• Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
• The more man becomes irradiated with the Divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
• The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.
• The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.
• A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
• The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is