Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it.

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.

A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.

The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.

As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

Our thoughts are not roadblocks to our meditation, they are the divine expression of the universe and the building blocks of infinite possibilities available to us in every moment.

Buy laughter with tears, and you'll be rich forever.

Do not rest, believer, until you have full assurance of your interest in Jesus.

This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

I always wear high heels.

I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.

I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.