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.
There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.
To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.
The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.
But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.