We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.