Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.