We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

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.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

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

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.