We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart