The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

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

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.

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.