This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.

All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

All haste implies weakness.

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near? Even with her altered complexion and face of dislike; disenchanted of the belief that clung around her; known for a living, walking sepulcher, faithless, deluding, traitorous; I felt, notwithstanding all this, that she was beautiful. Upon this I pondered with undiminished perplexity.