If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God without these millions of sights and sounds and scents and motions, weaving their endless harmonies. They come out of His heart to let us know a little of what is in it.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.