They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.

In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.