We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.