And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

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

Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.

The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.

When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.