For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

You Too? I thought I was the only one.

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.