Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.

I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.