One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.

The face of the Son of God, who, instead of accepting the sacrifice of one of his creatures to satisfy his justice or support his dignity, gave himself utterly unto them, and therein to the Father by doing his lovely will; who suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their suffering might be like his, and lead them up to his perfection.

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

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