Mary A. Ward
Mary A. Ward
god philosophy things-change
All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.
art firsts thirds
my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!
spiritual character men
I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
littles today lasts
How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
memorable creeds
Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
stupid character class
A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.
marriage writing fiction
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
christian pain past
Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.
men stories found
Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
daughter mother father
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
daughter mother father
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
sleep mind
But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
girl country school
A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.