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.

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.

Faith is obedience, not compliance.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

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

For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving?