"Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will."

"And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay."

"Past tears are present strength."

"Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue."

"Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable."

"To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good."

"No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it - no place to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather."

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

"Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing."

"If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either."

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

"Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil."

"A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home"

"My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am."

"But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart."

"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."

"There is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away."

"But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest."

"There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator."

"I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself."

"I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation."

"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."

"We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said."

"Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on."

"I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in it."

"We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We have a body." George Macdonald, 1892"

"But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love."

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

"...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow."

"For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds."

"I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!"

"She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it."

"It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself."

"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 gone."

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

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

"There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve."

"Obedience is the opener of eyes."

"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 of our destruction."

"I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done."

"Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed."

"The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye."

"Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates."

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

"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."

"We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough."

"In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope."

"You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great."

"We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey."

"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 very spirit of God."