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

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

"You can make anything by writing."

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

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

"Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit."