Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.
Miracles are for beginners.
One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.
Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can’t see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.
God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.
I pray because I can’t help myself...
You can’t go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.
A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.
Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.
You people have no imagination!
We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.
No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly.
What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.
It is often little things that are hardest to stand.
Freedom always comes with a price.
Friends are like coals in a fire – together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word “love.”