A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.

When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.