Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right …

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your …

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one …

We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the arbiters of every motion of our own complicated nature;…

You seek life, and a godly fire Gushes and gleams for you out of the earth, As, with shuddering long, you Hurl yourself down to the flames of the Etna. So by a…

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.