Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.