There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness,...

For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that would be enough to prove it undivine; and that which is but one step beyond our understanding must be...

…I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian here as well.”But you have just told me you were sexton here!”So I...

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Gods finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

I am always hearing. . . the sound of a far off song. I do not exactly know where it is, or what it means; and I don’t hear much of it, only the odour...

How kind you are, North Wind!”I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it.

Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? — not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering,...

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

Where people know their work and do it, life has few blank spaces for boredom and they are seldom to be pitied. Where people have not yet found their work, they may be more pitied...

I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will...

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

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

The ruin of a man’s teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only...

It is just the old way–that of obedience. If you have ever seen the Lord, if only from afar–if you have any vaguest suspicion that the Jew Jesus, who professed to have come from God,...

I should not be surprised,” said Mr. Graham, “that the day should come when men will refuse to believe in God simply on the ground of the apparent injustice of things. They would argue that...

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last...

The claim that hung over him haunted his very life, turning the currents of his thought into channels of speculation unknown before. One day when these questions were fighting in his heart, all at once...

…as no one can be just without love, so no one can truly report without understanding.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

The principle part of faith is patience

Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.

I would I were in the kingdom of heaven if it be as you and Mr. Graham take it for!” said Clementina.”You must be in it, my lady, or you couldn’t wish it to be...

The principal part of faith is patience.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

Anybody with leisure can do that who is willing to begin where everything ought to be begun–that is, at the beginning. Nothing worth calling good can or ever will be started full grown. The essential...

I would never speak about faith, but speak about the Lord himself – not theologically, as to the why and wherefore of his death – but as he showed himself in his life on earth,...

It is not at all a fit place for you,” said Clementina.”Gently, my lady. It is a greater than thou that sets the bounds of my habitation. Perhaps He may give me a palace one...

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

Could we see things always as we have sometimes seen them—and as one day we must always see them, only far better—should we ever know dullness? Greatly as we might enjoy all forms of art,...

Love me, beloved; Hades and DeathShall vanish away like a frosty breath;These hands, that now are at home in thine,Shall clasp thee again, if thou art still mine;And thou shalt be mine, my spirit’s bride,In...

Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, a kiss too longAnd there follows a mist and a weeping rainAnd life is never the same again

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Her heart – like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away – was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

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...

It was not a bed with curtains, but a bed with doors like shutters. This may not seem like a nice way of having a bed, but we would all be glad of the wooden...

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn’t seen some...

A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my drawing, on the other hand, is so far from being a work of art...

In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have; for it is not the things we see the most...

Understanding is the reward of obedience. Obedience is the key to every door. I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and...

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

That’s a poet.”I thought you said it was a bo-at.”Stupid pet! Don’t you know what a poet it?”Why, a thing to sail on the water in.”Well, perhaps you’re not so far wrong. Some poets do...

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.