When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home.

We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit, that is, his very nature within us, for the asking, we will hardly take the trouble to ask for it.

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

When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.