If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.