There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.