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“Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.”
“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.”
“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.”
“No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.”
“Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.”
“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 a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come in you by the grace of God.”
“Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.”
“A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.”
“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.”
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!”
“Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.”
“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 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.”
“Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.”
“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”
“Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.”
“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.”
“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.'”
“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.”