Me and Jane had fun reading a lot of them last night, and so I though it would be cool to share some of them. He's one of my favorite writers. Enjoy!
Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.
The real way of mending a man's taste is not to denigrate his favorites but to teach him how to enjoy something better.
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying us at the moment.
What we practice, not (save at rare intervals) what we preach, is usually our contribution to the conversion of others.
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
Christians do not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will, then it is worth paying.
As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.
Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.
I believe in Christianity as I believe in the sun: not only because I see it, but by it I see everything else.
It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.
The 1st step to humility is to realize you are proud. To think you're not conceited, means you are indeed.
I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
We shall not be able to adore God on the highest occasions if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest.
All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
Continue seeking God with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back the soonest is the most progressive.
All very good but my favorite has to be
ReplyDelete"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less."
I'll spare you from putting on my teachers glasses and launching into a mini-sermon on the subject of humility. Suffice to say, that's the single best definition of humility I've seen. That and I think God's trying to teach me a thing or two about humility =p