The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are.

A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?