The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?