Christendom and heathendom now stand face to face... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and the nature of an and the ultimate nature of the universe; it is a war of dogma.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

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