Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked.