A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save those who have not explicitly accepted him in this life.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.