It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.