There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.

"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?"

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.

What God may hereafter require of you, you must not give yourself the least trouble about. Everything He gives you to do, you must do as well as ever you can, and that is the best possible preparation for what He may want you to do next. If people would but do what they have to do, they would always find themselves ready for what came next.