He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.