Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.

Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.