The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.