The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.