If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here's the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it.

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.