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A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.
Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.
Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.
Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.
Difficulty adds to result, as the ramming of powder sends the bullet the further.
But there is no veil like light--no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth.
Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.
My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.
There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.
Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.
In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.
God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.
It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.
Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.
I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.
I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over
In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.
A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.
It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.
Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.
It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.
The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.
Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.
In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.
If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.
If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!
This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.
If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.
We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.
I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.
Somehow, I can't say how, it tells me that all is right; that it is coming to swallow up all cries.
I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.
In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.
Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.
In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.