As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.

Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.