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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.
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon tradition or external authority or historical evidence, but upon the ascertainable facts of human experience. The craving for immediacy, which we have seen to be characteristic of all mysticism, now takes the form of a desire to establish the validity of the God-consciousness as a normal part of the healthy inner life.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.
A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.
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.
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