The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.