"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

"If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it."

"Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God."

"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."

"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."