Occupation: Writer Birth: June 13, 1893 Death: December 17, 1957
God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely blot out t….
The only Christian work is good work, well done.
It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that s….
For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spen….
Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, ….
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such ….
The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling..
The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It ha….
It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rati….
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made ….
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking..
What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Cruci….
Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history..
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force..
God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletar….
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, i….
If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever..
Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something..
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience..
It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ..
For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the merc….