The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.

If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

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

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.

We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.