Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us.

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.