Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ's footsteps. For the religion which He taught and revealed in His own life and ministry was an intensely practical and down-to-earth affair.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

I also understood that there are many degrees of holiness, that each soul is free to respond to the calls of Our Lord, to do much or little for His Love—in a word, to choose amongst the sacrifices He asks.

A love which does not prove itself in action is not enough, nor is our natural readiness to please a friend; that is not charity, for sinners are ready to do the same. Jesus

It is for us to console our Lord, and not for Him to console us.