We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

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.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.

Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?