Quotes from Alice Cary

I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.

How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

My soul is full of whispered song; My blindness is my sight; The shadows that I feared so long Are all alive with light.

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

We cannot do wrong and feel right, nor can we give pain and gain pleasure, for justice avenges each slight.

Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!

My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.

There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven.

We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.

Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?