If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.