He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had forgotten it, but was miserable about it, notwithstanding. And this misery was the voice...

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

Most of the Psalms were born in a wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through the fire. The greatest poets have...

Afflictions are but the shadows of God’s wings.

All that is not God is death.

The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary likeness of the thing made to him who makes it, and so of the work of the made to the...

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin.The only vengeance worth having on sinis to make the sinner himself its executioner.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses...

What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one’s duty is then a sign of how little one does...

You can’t live on amusement. It is the froth on water – an inch deep and then the mud.

I am a beast until I love as God doth love.

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

But I never just quite liked that ryhme.”Why not, child?”Because it seems to say one’s as good as another, or two new ones are better than one that’s lost. . . . Somehow, when once...

This is and has been the Father ‘ s work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.

God ‘ s finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

it is only more life.

That’s all nonsense,” said Curdie. “I don’t know what you mean.” “Then if you don’t know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?

With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shakeThe darkness out of me, and rend the meshThe spider-devils spin out of the...

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all infidelity that has ever been spoken

Really what they told us today is that number 7 should be running for the next couple of years.

How old are you?””Ten,” answered Tangle.”You don’t look like it,” said the lady.”How old are you, please?” returned Tangle.”Thousands of years old,” answered the lady.”You don’t look like it,” said Tangle.”Don’t I? I think I...

If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words–food and exercise.

It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father’s will. There can be...

We’re looking into conserving landfill space. We’re looking to generate energy without relying on fossil fuel. So there’s a lot of interest in using this waste stream and turning it into a beneficial product.

A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all take time to grow, and so must a library. I wouldn’t even know...

The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother’s darling, and...

We must remember that God is not occupied with a grand toy of worlds and suns and planets, of attractions and repulsions, of agglomerations and crystallizations, of forces and waves; that these but constitute a...

Where did you come from, baby dear? / Out of the everywhere into here.

The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine

The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop.

I can but pray the Father o’ a’ to haud his e’e upon her, an’ his airms aboot her, an’ keep aff the hardenin’ o’ the hert ‘at despises coonsel!

…To trust in the strength of God in our weakness; to say, ‘I am weak: so let me be: God is strong;’ to seek from him who is our life, as the natural, simple cure...

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

We’ve done a better job at getting more complete representation.

I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind.

Seek not that your sons and your daughters should not see visions, should not dream dreams; seek that they should see true visions, that they should dream noble dreams. Such out-going of the imagination is...

The two pillars of ‘political correctness’ are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth

How many who love never come nearer than to behold each other as in a mirror; seem to know and yet never know the inward life; never enter the other soul; and part at last,...

…he believed in God and he believed that when the human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its own.

To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have to give up my beautiful thoughts and my love for the things God has made. But I...

O Lord, I have been talking to the people;Thought’s wheels have round me whirled a fiery zoneAnd the recoil of my word’s airy rippleMy heart unheedful has puffed up and blown.Therefore I cast myself before...

Past tears are present strength.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness – the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.