No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not enough...I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee. More gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog.

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.