The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious.

The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.

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.

The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness of nature, does not. It thinks God would not do that sort of thing.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.