This therefore is a certain truth, that hell and death, curse and misery, can never cease or be removed from the creation till the will of the creature is again as it came from God and is only a Spirit of Love that wills nothing but goodness. All the whole fallen creation, stand it never so long, must groan and travail in pain, till every contrariety to the divine will is entirely taken from every creature. Which is only saying, that all the powers and properties of nature are a misery to themselves, can only work in disquiet and wrath, till the birth of the Son of God brings them under the dominion and power of the Spirit of Love.

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

The trodden path is the safest.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

A little birdie flew overhead a traffic light of green and red. From her diagonal point of view she saw both crimson and lime hue. Obey traffic rules? Birdies need not. Masters listen only to the inner voice of God.

To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Maundy Thursday There are many things which a person can do alone, but being a Christian is not one of them. As the Christian life is, above all things, a state of union with Christ, and of union of his followers with one another, love of the brethren is inseparable from love of God. Resentment toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart with love to God. The personal relationship to Christ can only be realized when one has "come to himself" as a member of His Body, the Christian fellowship.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.