To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

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