Smile at such fancies if you will, but think also whether they may not be within sight of the greatest of facts.

Of all teachings that which presents a far distant God is the nearest to absurdity.

Either there is none, or he is nearer to every one of us than our nearest consciousness of self.

An unapproachable divinity is the veriest of monsters, the most horrible of human imaginations.
When the winter came, with its frost and snow, Gibbie saved Robert much suffering.

At first Robert was unwilling to let him go out alone in stormy weather; but Janet believed that the child doing the old man's work would be specially protected.