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.
Friends are seldom found; they are made.
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.”
I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.
A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.
An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.
I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.
It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.
Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.