If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.