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.

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.

I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

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