"In the present stages of spiritual experience, the believer's interior comfort, and his exterior lustre, greatly depend on the position of his heart toward the uncreated sun of righteousness. How obscure and benighted are our views, and how languid our exercise of grace, when an unbelieving, a worldly, or a careless spirit, interrupts our walk with God! But, if the out-goings of our souls are to him, and if the in-pourings of his blessed influence be felt, we glow, we kindle, we burn, we shine."

"Contradictions have always existed in the soul of . But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that …"

"I have a great respect for the Nazarenism of Jesus — very little for later Christianity. But the only relig…"

"And what is a week? Poof— and like that a week is gone by. Poof— there is a good week, and poof -- there it…"

"For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ…"

"“Because we write fiction we mine our souls. Of course you put yourself into your fiction, your fiction is …"

"Three days later the little princess was buried, and Prince Andrei went up the steps to where the coffin st…"