When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

Which of us is other than a secret to all but God!

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

Why should my love be powerless to help another?