The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

The absent are easily refuted.

There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

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.