The most significant things slipped from her as if they were merest words without shadow of meaning or intent: they did not support the doctrines she had been taught, and therefore said nothing to her.

The story of Christ and the appeals of those who had handled the Word of Life had another end in view than making people understand how God arranged matters to save them.

God would have us live: if we live we cannot but know; all the knowledge in the universe could not make us live.

Obedience is the road to all things--the only way in which to grow able to trust him.

Love and faith and obedience are sides of the same prism.
Regularly after that, lady Arctura came to the lesson--always intending to object as soon as it was over.