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

Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.