He felt himself flung back on all the ugly uncertainties from which he thought he had cast loose forever. After all, what did he know of her life? Only as much as she had chosen to show him, and measured by the world's estimate, how little that was!

But his marital education had since made strides, and he now knew that a disregard for money may imply not the willingness to get on without it but merely a blind confidence that it will somehow be provided.

But the idealist subdued to vulgar necessities must employ vulgar minds to draw the inferences to which he cannot stoop

That was the way of the world they lived in. Nobody questioned, nobody wondered any more-because nobody had time to remember.

Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred. She admired him most of all, perhaps, for being able to convey as distinct a sense of superiority as the richest man she had ever met.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; . . . atheism is against, not only our reason but our instincts.

where there is no sound reason, there can be no real virtue.

Faith is not the presence of warm religious feeling. It's the knowledge that you walk before the God who hears.

God's self-revelation is a higher authority than our feelings.

You barely realize what just happened. It is called faith. You just turned in Jesus' direction and you are listening. You want what he offers.

Isaiah himself was only more aware of his shame as it stood in contrast to the perfection and purity of the Lord. It brought him to despair at his predicament. But despair is not a bad thing when it compels us to trust in or be associated with God himself.

One thing I do know is that my helpers were qualified by the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.