You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

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

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be forced to use it in another way-to find the Word in it...to re-live, while we read, the whole Jewish experience of God's gradual and graded self-revelation, to feel the very contentions between the Word and the human material through which it works.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.