Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly