There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying
But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming.
True revelation of the fact of the Spirit's indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.