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.

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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.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

When, then, I think about the impression that the word makes upon me, how it is affecting me with the knowledge of itself, then I am what I should call self-conscious of the word—conscious not...

Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat...

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes

All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.

Who can give a man this, his own name?

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

It is the half-Christian clergy of every denomination that are the main cause of the so-called failure of the church of Christ

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius...

Obedience is the opener of eyes.

The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

The principle part of faith is patience.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

No gift unrecognized as coming from God is at its own best: therefore many things that God would gladly give us, things even that we need because we are, must wait until we ask for...

It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others.

It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh.

Where did you get your eyes so blue? / Out of the sky as I came through.

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the...

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the...

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or...