The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.

Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.