It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been “had for a sucker” by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.
It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.
Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?
Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world’s population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year’s end.
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.
I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.
We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely.
To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.
God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.
On the back of Satan’s neck is a nail scarred footprint.
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.