In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.