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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.
If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.
It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.
To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.
Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.
Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.
God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.
And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.
All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.
Better to have the poet's heart than brain, Feeling than song.
Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.
You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.
Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
I am an emptiness for Thee to fill; my soul a cavern for Thy sea
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.
No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.
Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.
The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.
But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.
A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.
The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.
To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!
What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.
It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because
Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.
There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.
There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.
As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.
Only because uplifted in song, was I able to endure the blaze of the dawn.
Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.
Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.
Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.
God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid.