"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?"

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

To be kind neither hurts nor compromises.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the boarders, searching out new lands into which she may guide her plodding brother. The imagination is the light which redeems from the darkness for the eyes of the understanding. Novalis says, 'The imagination is the stuff of the intellect' -affords, that is, the material upon which the intellect works.