A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. |
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. |
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. |
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. |
Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners. |
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. |
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. |
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. |
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. |
Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it. |
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. |
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. |
Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place. |
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized |
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized |