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.

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.

But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.