Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.