Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.

Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by?" — "No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me — not to know me myself.

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