This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.
Frederick William Robertson
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
worth man
This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.
liberty duty occupations man
The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.
mistakes self
Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
trials
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
There is rest in this world nowhere except in Christ, the manifested love of God. Trust in excellence, and the better you become, the keener is the feeling of deficiency. Wrap up all in doubt, and there is a stern voice that will thunder at last out of the wilderness upon your dream.
trust doubt dreams rest
Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.
faith
In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
failure work
Men.. Are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
trials men
men
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
mind
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
poetry
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
life wisdom
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
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