Helpful Thoughts

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Jan 2, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 1.

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"SADNESS sits lightly upon the heart of faith."

PRAY hardest when it is hardest to pray.—Brent.

"A CLOUDY day often keeps some folks from seeing an opportunity."

"IT is surely better to pardon too much than to condemn too much."

"THE hands are for the hardness of toil; the heart is for tenderness."

"HIDE a troubled heart with a smiling face, and its ache will not seem so great."

WHAT a different place some people can make the same place!—Kate Langley Bosher.

"USEFULNESS is the rent we are asked to pay for room on earth. Some of us are heavily in debt."

It is the height of folly to throw up attempting because you have failed. Failures are wonderful elements in developing the character.—Max Muller.

IN rose time or in berry time, When ripe seeds fall or buds peep out, When green the grass or white the rime, There's something to be glad about. —Lucy Larcom.

THE desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess, man; but in love there is no excess, neither can man or angel come in danger by it.—Lord Bacon.

WITH deep earnestness would I urge you to pray,—habitually, reverently, trustfully to pray to your Heavenly Father,—and never to rise from your knees until you feel that you rise victorious, and that you, too, have been saying to God in the heartfelt purpose which gave might to the older patriarchs, "I will not let thee go, except thou bless me."—F. W. Farrar.