Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

You can't really study people; you can only get to know them.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and religion are about. Culture as a collective name for certain very valuable activities is a permissible word; but culture hypostatized, set up on its own, made into a faith, a cause, a banner, a platform, is unendurable. For none of the activities in question cares a straw for that faith or cause. It is like a return to early Semitic religion where names themselves were regarded as powers.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.