If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

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

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.

We are not made for law, we are made for love.