I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought. But for naturalism all thoughts are mere events with irrational causes. It is, to me at any rate, impossible to regard the thoughts which make up naturalism in that way and, at the same time, regard them as a real insight into external reality...If it is true, then we can know no truths. It cuts its own throat.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love", and look on things as if man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. "Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest "well pleased".