we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.

Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.