If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.