We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.

A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.

The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.

As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

I know from experience Dev, purposely breaking a man and leaving him with nothing left to live for can be a very dangerous thing.-Moe

Love is the blind revelation of arrogance.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

When I became a Christian my confidence grew.

At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.

I think the election of Trump was an expression of what happens in ruling powers as they become alarmed.

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.

Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.