A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.

I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

Obedience is the road to freedom.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.