What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.

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

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.