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

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.

The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His fatherhood. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, “Thou art my refuge, because Thou art my home”.