If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.

I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity