A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.

Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals