In short, a man must be set free from the sin he is, which makes him do the sin he does .
The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.
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.
God’s finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.
In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope.
To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.
To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace – the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.
Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again.
Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love’s kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.
If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.
There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.
Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.
Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.
Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.
In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow...
We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.
I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God’s patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!