The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.