The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

History is a story written by the finger of God.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.

Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.