If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

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.

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

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