The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.