Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.

It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.