Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.

Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.