Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.

The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world.