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

What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

[God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way."

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

Do not measure God's mind by your own.