"In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all."
"In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life."
"You can't know, you can only believe - or not."
"What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent."
"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."
"We are what we believe we are!"