Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.