“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

A man’s real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.

There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I’ll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life.

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind-you could call it character in action.

Through discipline comes freedom.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.