It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.

He (God) loves what I shall be.

It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.