Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.
We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.
Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.
To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.
Religion is caught, not taught.
The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
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.
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
The Devil deserves zero tolerance.
Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
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