So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man.

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

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

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.