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.

As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.

It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

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.

But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's - not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!

Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.