This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.
The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.
And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.
Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.