All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

Do not measure God's mind by your own.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.