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

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.

I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.

Religion is life essential.

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.