The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.

Man must endure his going hence.

What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father-that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.