People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.