It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.