Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

Everything that is not eternal is worthless in eternity.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.