Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.

Total war is the most humane in the long run.