Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.