90 quotes
Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.
Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879)
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
One of the grandest things in having rights is that, being your rights, you may give them up.
I find the doing of the will of God, leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
The Marquis of Lossie (1877)
Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.
Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Afflictions are but the shadow of God's wings.
The tale is there, not to hide, but to show.
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
My tales may not be roses, but I will not boil them.
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
A fairytale, like a butterfly or a bee, helps itself on all sides, sips at every wholesome flower, and spoils not one.
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
I think the reason children get tired of their toys so soon is just that it is against human nature to be really interested in what is of no use.
What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good.
Phantastes (1858)
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.
Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call the reality? — not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier?
Phantastes (1858)
A man's labors must pass like the sunrises and sunsets of the world. The next thing, not the last, must be his care.
What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.
Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879)
It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice.
Unspoken Sermons, First Series (1867)
I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?