I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

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

To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.