Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world.

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

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

You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.