Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

I will offer to Him both my tears and my exultation. Nothing we offer to Him will be lost.

She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.

We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.

If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.