The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.