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| A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. | | Uncategorized | |
| A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. | | Uncategorized | |
| A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. | | Uncategorized | |
| Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy. | | Uncategorized | |
| Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners. | | Uncategorized | |
| All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. | | Uncategorized | |
| Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. | | Uncategorized | |
| Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. | | Uncategorized | |
| Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. | | Uncategorized | |
| Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it. | | Uncategorized | |
| Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. | | Uncategorized | |
| Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true. | | Uncategorized | |
| Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place. | | Uncategorized | |
| Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. | | Gambling | |
| God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach. | | Uncategorized | |
| Is there, as the medieval mystics taught, a "spark" at the core of the Soul, which never consents to evil, a Divine nucleus in the heart of the personality, which can take no stain? | | Uncategorized | |
| It is becoming impossible for those who mix with their fellowmen to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally. | | Uncategorized | |
