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.

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.