The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience

To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.

Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.