It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.

When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.

There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.