It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
From Frederick William Robertson
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
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.
The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
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