Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can.

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.