Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.

Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.