We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world....No doubt pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. it removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of the rebel soul.

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.