The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ

Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be... His verdict on the doctrine of God is only that it is not proven. It is not that it is disproven. He is but an atheist. He is not an anti-theist.

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the blessing of God, the benefit of books, and the benevolence of friends.

By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.