We are likest to Christ when we are nearest to the hearts of men, when our sympathies are widest, when we are the gentlest, when our hands are readiest to minister. –
One Thing I Do in Finding the Way
We do not begin to understand what our lives mean to others who see us and are touched by us. It is possible to do too much advising or exhorting of others, but we never can do too much beautiful living. One can send a blessed influence out through a whole community, just by being a splendid man. He may not be eloquent or brilliant, he may not be a statesman, an architect, a distinguished leader, a noted physician or surgeon, a gifted orator, but simply to be a worthy, noble, good man for ten, twenty, thirty years in a community, is an achievement gloriously worth while. Men who are living nobly do not begin to know how many others are living well, too, just because they are. –
A Call to Christian Manliness, in The Gate Beautiful