If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.