But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's - not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!

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

Only because uplifted in song, was I able to endure the blaze of the dawn.

I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.

To try to be brave is to be brave.

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

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.