Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

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

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.