“If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used to give it expression.”

“What you have learned from experience is worth much more than gold. If you have a house it may burn down. Any kind of possession can be lost, but your experience is yours forever. Keep it and find a way to use it.”

“Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!”

“To give up faith in Christ is to give up faith in humanity; to believe in Christ is to believe in the redemption and final glorification of men; and this faith is the best inspiration to a holy and useful life for the good of our race of the glory of God.”

“Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.”

“Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.”