It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless (sometimes even if) shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to check it.

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.