To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.

To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it - made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

You can't really study people; you can only get to know them.