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.

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by?" — "No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me — not to know me myself.

If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.