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.

If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God without these millions of sights and sounds and scents and motions, weaving their endless harmonies. They come out of His heart to let us know a little of what is in it.

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.