Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?

To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.

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

Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor--one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.

In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.

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.

Faith is obedience, not compliance.