

“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.”
― Weighed and Wanting
― Weighed and Wanting

“Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that went plumb-down.
"That is the way," he said.
"But there are no stairs."
"You must throw yourself in. There is no other way.”
― The Golden Key
"That is the way," he said.
"But there are no stairs."
"You must throw yourself in. There is no other way.”
― The Golden Key

“A Baby Sermon-
The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home”
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The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home”
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“...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.”
― The Princess and the Goblin
― The Princess and the Goblin

“We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks of our own soiled feet, and the trail of our own defiled garments.... Each, putting his foot in the footprint of the Master, and so defacing it, turns to examine how far his neighbor’s footprint corresponds with that which he still calls the Master’s, although it is but his own.”
― Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
― Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
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