And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.