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.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

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.

Man must endure his going hence.

I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

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

If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.