We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a pagan and an apostate is the difference between an unmarried woman and an adulteress. For faith perfects nature but faith lost corrupts nature. Therefore many men of our time have lost not only the supernatural light but also the natural light which pagans possessed.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.