God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

Do not measure God's mind by your own.

If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.