The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church - read on - and give his life for her (Eph. V, 25). This headship, then, is most fully embodied not in t...
I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards success.
The human mind is generally farmore eager to praise and dispraise than to describe anddefine.
If you were subjects of Maleldil you would have peace.
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must g...
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it.
Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false.
Hate obscures all distinctions.
Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.
I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been born in God's thought, and then made by God is the dearest, grandest, and most preci...
God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least.
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic p...
I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you mo...
We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to...