God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.