Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love.

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.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather!

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up