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

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.

First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.

Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.

I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.

The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.