All the world is an utterance of the Almighty.
It seems so far off,
that Cross of Jesus, and
it really is so near! For
it is lifted up so high that
the waves of time roll
unheeded and unmeaning
at its foot. It is the
power of perfection for us
to-day.
Each high achievement is a sign and token of the whole nature's possibility. What a piece of the man was for that shining moment, it is the duty of the whole man to be always.
May we not daily tread the same paths of holiness and sorrow, joy and love, that Christ has trodden, and see His footsteps on them still?
Even if you have to force yourself to your duty, – still, do it. Do your duty, even if duty be wearisome and hard, for then you are in the place where it can become joyous and easy to you.
We must answer for our actions; God will answer for our powers.
Some day certainly the fog shall rise, the clouds shall scatter, and in the perfect enlightenment of the other life the soul shall see its Lord, and be thankful for every darkest step that we took towards Him here.
Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to carry stuck on his forehead in a paste-board cap, and which kept his own shadow from being cast upon his work when he was hewing out his statues.
David's pilgrims, going through the vale of misery, "use it for a well." … When they grew thirsty they looked not merely farther on into the heart of the future, but deeper down into the bosom of the present.
The sense of evil in life does not deny, but implies the noblest capacities in men.
Man must be a ray of the great sunshine under whose touch some special flower may open, and some special fruit fill itself with healthy and nutritious juice, some little corner of the field grow rich.
Any honest task is capable of being so largely conceived that he who enters into it may see, stretching before him, the promise of things to do and be, that will stir his enthusiasm and satisfy his best desires.