Charles Villiers Stanford quotes:

Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming--beautiful, but dead.

To love as Christ loves is to let our love be a practical and not a sentimental thing.

Heaven must be in me before I can be in heaven.