Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.

Beauty and sadness always go together.

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.

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