In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear

All is loss that comes between us and Christ.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.