It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
Divine • Human • Redemption
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...
Existentialism • Philosophy • Religion
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
Imagination • Philosophy • Reason
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.
Career • Family • Home
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
Mystery • Perception • Spirituality
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Happiness • Love • Relationships
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Growth • Improvement • Motivational
God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
Faith • Happiness • Peace
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
Religion • Sacrifice
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
Philosophy • Religion • Science
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Age • Health • Life
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Courage • Perseverance • Strength
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
Faith • Goodness • Love
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Beliefs • Faith • Perception
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say 'My tooth is aching' than to say 'My heart is broken'.
Communication • Health • Stigma
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
Friendship • Understanding
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
Age • Reading
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
Food • Pleasure
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
Beliefs • Faith • Religion
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Art • Creativity • Truth
