Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

He (God) loves what I shall be.

God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.

The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.