Being in the light she understood the light, and had no need of system, either true or false, to explain it to her.

She lived by the word proceeding out of the mouth of God.

When life begins to speculate upon itself, I suspect it has begun to die.

And seldom has there been a fitter soul, one clearer from evil, from folly, from human device--a purer cistern for such water of life as rose in the heart of Janet Grant to pour itself into, than the soul of Sir Gibbie.
But I must not call any true soul a cistern: wherever the water of life is received, it sinks and softens and hollows, until it reaches, far down, the springs of life there also, that come straight from the eternal hills, and thenceforth there is in that soul a well of water springing up into everlasting life..