If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.