What would the Living One have me do?

Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," not the Bible, save as leading to Him.

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

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?