No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.
You doubt because you love truth.
To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.
It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice.
This is and has been the Father’s work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.
He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.
A man’s real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.
The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
Oh, I believe that there is no away; that no love, no life, goes ever from us; it goes as He went, that it may come again, deeper and closer and surer, and be with us always, even to the end of the world.
Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.
The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.
Man’s rank is his power to uplift.
The mind of the many is not the mind of God.