I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I write.

Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

I felt that I had been born anew and that the gates of heaven had been opened. The whole of Scripture gained a new meaning. And from that point on the phrase, 'the justice of God' no longer filled me with hatred, but rather became unspeakable sweet by virtue of a great love.

We aren't condemning good works. People first have to be made ready to do good works by being born anew. Only

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

There will not be, nor arise in us, the righteousness of God, unless our own righteousness falls and perishes utterly. We do not rise unless we who are standing badly have first fallen. Thus altogether the being, holiness, truth, goodness, life of God, etc., are not in us, unless in the presence of God we first become nothing, profane, lying, evil, dead. Otherwise the righteousness of God would be mocked, and Christ would have died in vain.

This is the work and skill of God, to correct and emend what had been ruined by Jacob's error. He can make evil matters good when we have spoiled and harmed matters.

Reason fails to understand this, "for the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God." (I Cor. 2:14.) It therefore seeks righteousness in externals. However, we learn from the Word of God that there is nothing under the sun that can make us righteous before God and a new creature except Christ Jesus.