A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.

The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.