Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.

We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.

Freedom always comes with a price.

He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.