Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.