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Anger is self-immolation. - [Anger] Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from. - [Courage] Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end. - [Creed] Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged. - [Devotion] Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. - [Power] Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him. - [Obedience] Happiness is the natural flower of duty. - [Happiness] Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven. - [Heaven] Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them. - [Heaven] Joy in one's work is the consummate tool. - [Joy] Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life. - [Enthusiasm] Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants. - [Christ (Saviour)] Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble. - [Motive] Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature. - [Action] No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him, He gives him for mankind. - [Greatness] No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being the better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. - [Example] O little town of Bethlehem! How still we see thee lie; Above thy deep and dreamless sleep, The silent stars go by. Yet, in thy dark street shineth The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee, to-night. - [Christmas] O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the world Thine own. - [Easter] Obedience completes itself in understanding. - [Obedience] Oh, my dear friends,--you who are letting miserable misunderstandings run on from year to year, meaning to clear them up some day,--if you only could know and see and feel that the time is short, how it would break the spell! How you would go instantly and do the thing which you might never have another chance to do! - [Reconciliation] Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give. - [Self-denial] Pray for and work for fullness of life above everything; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart. - [Life] So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty to Him in the days of His darkness, for the time when we shall enter into His triumph in the days of His light. And the beauty of it is that the same method runs throughout the disciples' work which ran through His work. Christ's method is repeating itself in the work of His disciples for ever and ever. As He who first gained the great victory overcame by undergoing the power of evil, shall we be surprised if that is the sort of victory that God calls upon us to gain? It is the victory which it is always the best to gain which makes the richest victory for any soul. - [Good Friday] The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching. - [Christ] 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 forth on the air When the song of the angels is sung. It is coming, Old Earth, it is coming tonight! On the snowflakes which cover thy sod The feet of the Christ-child fall gentle and white, And the voice of the Christ-child tells out with delight That mankind are the children of God. - [Christmas] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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