The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.