I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.

The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.