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.
A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.
Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing....
Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
Hate obscures all distinctions.
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...
Courage, dear heart.
The human mind is generally farmore eager to praise and dispraise than to describe anddefine.
We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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.
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.
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...
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.
You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.
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.