Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.

- Maude Royden

War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is not the means by which ideals are impo…

- Maude Royden

We cannot break God's laws - but we can break ourselves against them.

- Maude Royden

When you have nothing left but God, you become aware that God is enough.

- Maude Royden

we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit…

- Maude Royden

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

- Maude Royden

It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that scien…

- Maude Royden

There is a choice before us as people who live in a great world, so knit together that even America cannot stand quite outside it, or act as though i…

- Maude Royden

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

- Maude Royden