The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
True friends ... face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the o...
Though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, the...
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour whatever he does whoever he is.
Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my educat...
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick...
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope soft underfoot without sudden turnings without milestones without signposts.