The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.

To be kind neither hurts nor compromises.

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God without these millions of sights and sounds and scents and motions, weaving their endless harmonies. They come out of His heart to let us know a little of what is in it.