The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awe-inspiring loving-kindness.

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation--a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth. On and on from fact Divine He advances, until at length in His Son Jesus He unveils His very face.