Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.