It is the fact that love is so constituted that it finds joy in
bearing burdens.
Love is the sweetest and the costliest thing in the world. It is the
sweetest because it is the spirit and atmosphere of heaven. It is the
costliest because its arms are always aching for loads to carry.
When we fail in a righteous cause the labor has not necessarily been in
vain. One can never be robbed of the best fruit of his striving, which is
the added sinew of strength gained in the trying.
One of the strongest forces now making for a day of lasting peace is the
beautiful suggestion that comes from the spirit of those who make it their
aim to help while others destroy.
The hardy virtues that make good men are the foundation stones upon which
any sound national life must be built.---[National life] is, therefore,
more largely dependent upon Christian agencies than upon any other
one influence.
Responsibility is a wonderful tonic.
The ideal of Jesus will remain unrealized until men have learned to accept
his words at their face value, and to act upon the assumption that they
are true. Faith knows no other testimony so worthy as that of obedience.
Laziness is often a harder taskmaster than industry, and sin is always a
harder taskmaster than righteousness.
The habit of being real deserves a place among the chiefest of all
virtues.---We can no more outgrow the necessity for truth and honor than
we can outdistance that for plain living and high thinking.
The only proper standard is rightness. It is a poor thing to be in fashion
if the fashion is wrong.
...the man himself must not forget that what he can do and what he will do
are entirely determined by what he is.---One may stand upon artificial
good behavior for an hour or a day, but he cannot do it permanently
without the staying force of a fixed principle. It takes more than good
resolutions to make an ethical life.