If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

I pray because I can't help myself.

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.