Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.