“Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.”

A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.

The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.

The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.

Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.