"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"

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 boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.