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

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

I believe in fate, never in chance.

When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awe-inspiring loving-kindness.