You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.