Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--