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I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.
One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up
I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.
To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.
You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.
To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.
I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.
Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?
We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.
Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.
But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.
Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.
In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.
There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.
And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.
If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.
It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.
The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.
The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.
A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.
If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence
Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.
One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.
I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.
Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.
I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.
The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
Light-leaved acacias, by the door, Stood up in balmy air, Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore, And breathed a perfume rare.
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?
Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.
Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.
I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.
In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope.
The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
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.