There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

You can't expect people to do the right thing or else they will go to hell. We are already in hell!

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

I always say "if you are afraid of them (the unborn), give them to me. Please, don't kill them."

The sufferings and death of Jesus Christ are a substitution for the endless punishment of all who truly believe on Him.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.

My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.