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.
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.