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.

God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid.

There is an aching that is worse than any pain.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.