It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.
Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.
God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.
We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
If any of you on your journeys see her-shout to me, whistle. . . he sang, and it became a habit for audiences to shout and whistle in response to those lines. There was nowhere he could hide in such a song that had all of its doors and windows open, so that he could walk out of it artlessly, the antiphonal responses blending with him as if he were no longer on stage.
There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.