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

Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.

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.

Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.

Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming, delighting, teaching him-making life a good thing to him. God gives him himself, though the man knows it not.