But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.

When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.

Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.