But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.

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.

Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.