"Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing."

"What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other"

"The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world."

"There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present."

"No one, however strong he may feel his obligations, will ever be man enough to fulfill them except that he be a Christian-that is,one who, like Christ, cares first for the will of the Father."

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

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

"To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God."

"We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey."

"You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great."

"In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope."

"We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough."

"To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us."

"God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness."

"Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates."

"The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye."

"Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed."

"I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done."

"If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction."

"Obedience is the opener of eyes."

"There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve."

"It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh."

"The best preparation for the future, is the present well seen to, and the last duty done."

"When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone."