A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.