Sophie Swetchine

"What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief."

"Strength alone knows conflict. Weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished."

"The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it."

"My experience is that Christianity dispels more mystery than it involves. With Christianity, it is twilight in the world; without it, night. Christianity does not finish the statue,—that is heaven's work; but it "rough-hews" all things,—truth, the mind, the soul."

"The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it."

"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others"

"Youth should be a savings-bank."