Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope.

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear

I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.

Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action