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

The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

In our adversity, God shouts to us.