God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.