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.
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
Tomb thou shalt not hold Him longer Death is strong but Life is stronger Stronger than the dark the light Stronger than the wrong the right Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.
As you emphasize your life you must localize and define it… you cannot do everything.
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him but to call out his best energy that he may be able to bear the burden.
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.
Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
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.
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don’t like the tune.
No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, ‘Christ is risen,’ but ‘I shall rise.’
To say, ‘well done’ to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
It does not take great men to do great things it only takes consecrated men.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.