He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.

Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.