If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence.
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.
Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
Attitudes are more important than facts.
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain – if only they be large enough.
Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.
Philosophy is really homesickness.
All that is not God is death.
But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.
To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.
A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home.
Seeing is not believing – it is only seeing.
People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn’t seen some of it.
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
People must not choose their neighbors; they must take the neighbors that God sends them. The neighbor is just the person who is next to you at the moment, the person with whom any business has brought you into contact.
I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.
What would the Living One have me do?