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

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

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

"Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive."

"Forgiveness does not mean excusing."

"I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him."