Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.