Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.
Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.
It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.
The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.
Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.