“Little faith sees God's hand in great things. Established faith sees God's hand in little things.”
“Little faith is enough to see the mountains of sin but not enough to see that Son of Righteousness that shall arise over them.”
“Toen het kind zagHoe de wind Speelde met de krantRiep het uitKijk de wind leestAch zeur nietZei zijn vaderEn las verderOver de manDie zijn zoon vermoordde.”
“It's the little things that find us out, the little things we refuse to do in order to avoid doing the big things that can save us.”
“The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye...Love is as much its demand, as perception. Indeed neither can be perfect without the other.”
“the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,—universal signs, instead of these village symbols,—and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.”