I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by?" — "No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me — not to know me myself.

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

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

I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although any one sixpence is as good as any other sixpence, not twenty lambs would do instead of one sheep whose face you knew. Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more . Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight.

If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.