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

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

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

...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

All haste implies weakness.