“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.

If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.

God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.

Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.