Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the worst of all is not to want.

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.