I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.

As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't mean that we should run the risk of making a nuisance of ourselves by witnessing at improper times, but there comes a time when we must show that we disagree.