As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

Joy is the serious business of heaven.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

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.