Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

To be kind neither hurts nor compromises.

There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.

Philosophy is really homesickness.

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.