The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.

But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?