"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."

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

"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."

"...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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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 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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them."

"But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists."

"Because in our clippings I see a lot of articles that are very positive about all the stores that are voted by local communities."

"And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don't want us in your community, that's your choice, but don't say it's because of wages."