Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go.

It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power -- it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.