The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word "doctrine," as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.