What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.

I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.