A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn’t take long before everyone knows.
Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.
If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?
It is in their ‘good’ characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.
Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the ‘spirited element.’
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.
No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
So many things – nay every real thing – is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.