“Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.”

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.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

People have said, ‘You don’t need to do any more biopics. You don’t need to play any more real people.’ I don’t agree with that.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.