Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

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.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.