Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.