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

We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.