You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species - preference for man simply because we are men - is not sentiment, then what is?

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.

Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase.