No one can teach riding so well as a horse.
Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.
I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.
The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.
Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I’ve been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That’s the deal.
The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.
Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.
Pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn’t take long before everyone knows.
Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.
If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?