Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.