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

If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God without these millions of sights and sounds and scents and motions, weaving their endless harmonies. They come out of His heart to let us know a little of what is in it.

...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

He (God) loves what I shall be.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.