The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.

If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.