Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.

... believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and worshipping him is a still greater danger... The ultimate question is whether the doctrine of the goodness of God or that of the inerrancy of scripture is to prevail when they conflict. I think the doctrine of the goodness of God is the more certain of the two. Indeed, only that doctrine renders this worship of Him obligatory or even permissable.

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.