I am an emptiness for Thee to fill; my soul a cavern for Thy sea

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

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.