You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
Christian" has an eulogistic rather than a descriptive sense: e.g. "Christian standards" means simply "high moral standards". The presupposition "So-and-so is not a Christian" would only be taken to be a criticism of his behavior, never to be merely ...
It is at this hour that I am in my right mind: it is all the rest of the day that I am enchanted.
The more we believe that God hurts only to heal, the less we can believe that there is any use in begging for tenderness. A cruel man might be bribed...But suppose that what you are up against is a surgeon whose intentions are wholly good. The kinder...
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely
[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
The question has become whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of technology without losing all personal privacy and independence.
At present we are on the outside… the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the pleasures we see. But all the pages of the New Testament are rustling wi...
To generalize is to be an idiot," said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities are the lenses with which our intellects have to manage.
When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but lower in God's eyes; as the priests said, 'All that rabble who are not experts in the Torah are accur...
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still un...
There are far better things ahead than any we live behind.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
