No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those--few at any moment on the earth--who do not 'look before and after, and pine for what is not,' but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.