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

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.

Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!

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.

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!

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.

It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.