You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.