We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.

Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.

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

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.