Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

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

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water...If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.