All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law as of all benign laws is fear.
The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and aftern...
Imagine God and Man set down together to play that game of chess that we call life. The one player is a master, the other a bungling amateur, so the outcome of the game cannot be in question. The amat...
Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses and moon daisies, Stella stood and listened, swaying a...
Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
She had long accepted the factthat happiness is like swallows inSpring. It may come and nest underyour eaves or it may not. You cannotcommand it. When you expect to behappy you are not, when you don't...
In the utter peace and stillness the world seemed holding its breath, a little apprehensively, drawing near to the fire to warm itself. There was none of that sense of urgeful, pushing life that robs...