As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.
Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!
But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.
I believe in fate, never in chance.
I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.
And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing towards decay.
Only because uplifted in song, was I able to endure the blaze of the dawn.
I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.
If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.
Which of us is other than a secret to all but God!
The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.
God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.
In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
All is loss that comes between us and Christ.
All haste implies weakness.
You’ve got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.
I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.
God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.
As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone – which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart...