God is the food our spirits were designed to feed on.

Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor world; and talking leads almost inevitably to smoking, and then farewell to nature as far as one of our senses is concerned. The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.