When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.