God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home.

All is loss that comes between us and Christ.

I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word "doctrine," as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.