The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious.