It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power -- it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five.

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

If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.