There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.

The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.