Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.