How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.
The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.
Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.
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.
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.
The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; 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.
You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.
Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.
The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
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.
Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in us. We want to trust Him with a fuller trust, and so at last to come to that high life where we shall "be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our request be made known unto God"; for that, and that alone, is peace.
Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.
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.
Obedience completes itself in understanding.
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.
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