Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.