The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come. |
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal. |
The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God. |
The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry. |
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. |
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts |
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world. |
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. |
The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling. |
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said |
There are no ordinary people. |
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way |
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way |
There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan |
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth |