“Fortunately the Lord is patient and understanding, and does write straight with our crooked lines.”

“We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.”

“Listening is an essential part of praying. Answers from the Lord come quietly—ever so quietly. In fact, few hear his answers audibly with their ears. We must be listening so carefully or we will never recognize them. Most answers from the Lord are felt in our heart as a warm comfortable expression, or they may come as thoughts to our mind. They come to those who are prepared and who are patient.”

“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.”

“Writing does not resurrect,it buries.”

“Writing does not resurrect. It buries.”

“Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.”