Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else