God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?
Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.
The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.
God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
Continue seeking God with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.
The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.
The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.
God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask – half our great theological and metaphysical problems – are like that.
A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient’s reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
Love is the great conqueror of lust.
In worship, God imparts himself to us.
You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit...
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.