The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.