The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

When you have nothing left but God, you become aware that God is enough.

The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.

The corruption of the best is the worst.

There is a choice before us as people who live in a great world, so knit together that even America cannot stand quite outside it, or act as though it were situated somewhere on the moon! That choice is a choice - let me put it quite brutally - between heaven and hell. ... But it is not a choice between a heaven or a hell beyond the grave; it is a choice between making heaven or making hell on this side of the grave, and in this world, here and now.

Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.