It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.

It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.