Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work build up in him a sense of being really at home on earth which is just what we want.