Do not look at life’s long sorrow,
See how small each moment’s pain;
God will help thee for to-morrow,
So each day begin again.

new beginnings are the life of perseverance.

YOU have a disagreeable duty to do at twelve o’clock.
Do not blacken nine and ten and all between with the colour of twelve.

EVERY day ought to be begun as a serious work, standing alone in itself

[He was sent far] from the usual sphere of minister or priest, to find fresh worlds of thoughts and wild tracts of character, in which he found a response to himself, because he gave a response to them.

We are so apt to live two lives.
But Jesus knows but one.

a general harmony should exist between the natural side of your life and the spiritual, leaving neither side undeveloped.

I am far from thinking it is possible to serve God and the world, but living in the world is not serving the world.

the duties of life… are no obstructions to a life of any degree of inward holiness; but that they are even direct means… to promote our sanctification.

In the golden rule of moderation lies undoubtedly the essential condition of all stable human happiness.