Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

The only people who hate escapism are jailers.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.