The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.
You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.
I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.
We have to be continually reminded of what we believe.
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.
As long as he doesn’t convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.
Obedience is the key that opens every door.
Christ says, ‘Give me all. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.’
The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.
The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us.
Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.
Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.
You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.
The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.
We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.
Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.