Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right.

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.

When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord, make me chaste,' his heart had been secretly adding, 'But please don't do it just yet.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.