Prosperity knits a man to the world.

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.