He (God) loves what I shall be.

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.