Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

This is a wise, sane Christian faith: that a man commit himself, his life, and his hopes to God; that God undertakes the special protection of that man; that therefore that man ought not to be afraid of anything.

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