There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

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

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," not the Bible, save as leading to Him.

If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.