Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.Collection: Valentines
Obedience is the fruit of faith.Collection: Faith
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.Collection: Work
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.Collection: Sad
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.Collection: Beauty
My heart is like a singing bird.Collection: Romantic
Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.Collection: Hope
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.Collection: Family
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.
What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.Collection: Spring
What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.Collection: Love
Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.Collection: Holy Ground
The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.Collection: Path
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.Collection: Happiness
Flowers preach to us if we will hear.Collection: Flower
Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterward remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.Collection: Grieving
Open wide the windows of our spirits and fill us full of light; open wide the door of our hearts, that we may receive and entertain Thee with all our powers of adoration.Collection: Heart
Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.Collection: Good Life
Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.Collection: Land
Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.Collection: God
One day in the country Is worth a month in townCollection: Inspirational
Spring is when life's alive in everything.Collection: Spring
The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.Collection: Paradise
I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?Collection: Wall
Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.Collection: Hope
To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand or account for all its utterances.Collection: Faith
O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.Collection: Sea
Where are the songs I used to know, Where are the notes I used to sing? I have forgotten everything I used to know so long ago. ("The Key-Note")Collection: Song
I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.Collection: Faith
Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.Collection: Time
Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains.Collection: Rain
Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.Collection: Love You
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.Collection: Life
The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bowerCollection: Garden
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet: And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply I may forget.Collection: Dream