God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid.

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

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

What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her? And did not she come awake exactly at the right moment when the right prince kissed her? For my part, I cannot help wishing a good many girls would sleep till just the same fate overtook them. It would be happier for them, and more agreeable to their friends.