Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people