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

"I rose as from the death "that" wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow."

"I am ready,' I replied. 'How do you know you can do it?' 'Because you require it,' I answered."

"Somehow, I can't say how, it tells me that all is right; that it is coming to swallow up all cries."

"The one principle of hell is – “I am my own"

"Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them."

"It is amazing from what a mere fraction of a fact concerning him a man will dare judge the whole of another man"

""Then what do you see?" asked Irene, who perceived at once that for her not to believe him was at least as bad as for him not to believe her."

"Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure."

"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?"

"It is because the young cannot recognize the youth of the aged, and the old will not acknowledge the experience of the young, that they repel each other."

"Wherever there is anything to love, there is beauty in some form."

"But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide."

"The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home."

"Bees and butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the flowers and the brooks and the clouds."

"Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly."

"A kind of love to the cheerful little stream arose in my heart. It was born in a desert; but it seemed to say to itself, "I will flow, and sing, and lave my banks, till I make my desert a paradise."

"To will not from self, but with the Eternal, is to live."

"The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop."

"The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended."

"When a man dreams his own dream, he is the sport of his dream; when Another gives it him, that Other is able to fulfill it."

"Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!"

"I don't believe that he thinks about His glory except for the sake of truth and men's hearts dying for the lack of it."

"Life eternal, this lady of thine hath a sore heart, and we cannot help her. Thou art help, O Mighty Love. Speak to her, and let her know thy will, and give her strength to do it, O Father of Jesus Christ, Amen."

"The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for courtesy; but just in proportion to their approach the gentleness of most men diminishes."

"No one can say he is himself, until first he knows that he is, and then what himself is. In fact, nobody is himself, and himself is nobody."

"People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less."

"How kind is weariness sometimes! It is like the Father's hand laid a little heavy on the heart to make it still."

"Trust is born in love, and our need is to love God, not apprehend facts concerning him."

"Theologians have done more to hide the Gospel of Christ than any of its adversaries."

"She was a mother. One who is mother only to her own children is not a mother; she is only a woman who has borne children. But here was one of God's mothers."

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

"The man that feareth, Lord, to doubt, In that fear doubteth thee."

"Seeing is not believing—it is only seeing."

"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 a hole in it."

"Yes,' he answered; 'and you will be dead, so long as you refuse to die."

"Sorrow herself will reveal one day that she was only the beneficent shadow of Joy. Will Evil ever show herself the beneficent shadow of Good?"

"If man could do what in his wildest self-worship he can imagine, the grand result would be that he would be his own God, which is the Hell of Hells."

"The man who grounds his action on another's cowardice, is essentially a coward himself."

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

"Who can give a man this, his own name?"

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

"It is as necessary for a poor man to give away, as for a rich man. Many poor men are more devoted worshipers of Mammon than some rich men."

"All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come."

"He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where, finding no utterance, they grew, and swelled, and undermined."

"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."

"But it was little to Curdie that men who did not know what he was about should not approve of his proceedings."

"Let death do what it can, there is just one thing it cannot destroy, and that is life. Never in itself, only in the unfaith of man, does life recognize any sway of death."

"I hurried away to the white hall of Phantasy heedless of the innumerable forms of beauty that crowded my way: these might cross my eyes, but the unseen filled my brain."

"Then the great old, young, beautiful princess turned to Curdie. 'Now, Curdie, are you ready?' she said. 'Yes ma'am,' answered Curdie. 'You do not know what for.' 'You do, ma'am. That is enough."