God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.