True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
We are what we believe we are.
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
