The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.