By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient’s reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
Love is the great conqueror of lust.
In worship, God imparts himself to us.
You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit...
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.
Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It’s not the sort of comfort they supply there.
If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic – to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.
The great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.
God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.
If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth – the very thing the whole story has been about.
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.