Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.