If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

I am a product [...of] endless books.

Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.