To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.

Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.

For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?