A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.