What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.
In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.
A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.
Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.
Obedience is the key to every door.
To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.
Past tears are present strength.
A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.
Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.
When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.
It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.
To try to be brave is to be brave.
The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.
You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.
To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.
Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.