One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.

The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections. . . . Every time we find our hearts are troubled, that we are not rejoicing in God, a resurrection must follow; a resurrection out of the night of troubled thought into the gladness of the truth.

Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.