The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God’s will is our law; it is fully come when God’s will is our will.
Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.
In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.
But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the feelings of peace, awe and reverence that it inspires.
The birds, the poets of the animal creation – what though they never get beyond the lyrical! – awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God’s children.
But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.
There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.
We are not made for law, we are made for love.
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.
The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.
A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.
One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.
In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.
It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.