We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which He is always giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.