Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
Communication • Motivational • Philosophy
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Books • Satisfaction
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Destiny • Equality • Time
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
Generosity • Ownership • Sacrifice
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
Beliefs • Faith • God
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
History • Human • Intention
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
Beliefs • Faith • Religion
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
Habits • Improvement • Learning
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
Perseverance • Success
We laugh at honor, and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
Betrayal • Deception • Honor
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
Anxiety • Faith • Guilt
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
Faith • Forgiveness • Grace
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Age • Dreams • Goals
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
Communication • Empathy • Pain
I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity.
Alcohol • Christianity • Comfort
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Age • Imagination
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
Age • Growth
Eros will have naked bodies; friendship naked personalities.
Friendship • Love • Personality
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Fear • Grief
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
Affection • Love • Wish
