But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although any one sixpence is as good as any other sixpence, not twenty lambs would do instead of one sheep whose face you knew. Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more . Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight.

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.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love.