We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and religion are about. Culture as a collective name for certain very valuable activities is a permissible word; but culture hypostatized, set up on its own, made into a faith, a cause, a banner, a platform, is unendurable. For none of the activities in question cares a straw for that faith or cause. It is like a return to early Semitic religion where names themselves were regarded as powers.

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.