I want God, not my idea of God.

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.