Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power -- it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.

The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise- does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.