Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away?

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

From personal adversity comes great art

Imagination makes the worldand all the wonders in it.The seed of every dream unfurlsas you with love begin it!

The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.

Together with God you can successfully handle any difficulty.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

If Canada were really that great, it would be a state.

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.