The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious.

I pray because I can't help myself.

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.