The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

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.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.