And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.