But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.
If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain.
Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge.
Afternoon classes - that evil invention!
And God grant that His fire be not quenched! God save us from any smoothing over of these questions in the interests of a hollow pleasantness; God grant that great questions of principle may never rest until they are stettled right! It is out of such times of questioning that great revivals come. God grant that it may be so today! Controversy of the right sort is good; for out of such controversy, as Church history and Scripture alike teach, there comes the salvation of souls.
I can't die now, I have so much work to do.
While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.
Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.