You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.