If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.
A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
History is a story written by the finger of God.
Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men – things at once rational and animal.
No one can teach riding so well as a horse.
Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.
The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.
Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I’ve been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That’s the deal.
The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.
Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.
Pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world.