The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.
We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
A man can’t be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.
Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.
When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development –.
When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.
It’s not a question of God ‘sending’ us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.
By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.
The more we get what we now call ‘ourselves’ out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.
The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.
Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.
Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.
If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for training and correction and it’s not so bad.
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.
Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.
Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did.