No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.