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The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.
They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it
Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.
You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.
It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.
Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.
Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.
Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.
It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.
God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.
He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.
An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.
A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.
The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.
The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.
First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.
In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.
Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?
To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.
She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.
I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.