“You must believe, sooner or later, in a Mind which brought mind into existence out of matter, unless you are going to sit down before the hopeless metaphysical contradiction of saying that matter somehow managed to develop itself into mind.”

“Can anything matter, unless there is Somebody who minds?”

“Order is the cipher by which Mind speaks to mind in the midst of chaos.”

“If a man tells you that he is fond of the Imitation, view him with sudden suspicion; he is either a dabbler or a Saint.”

“When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'. ”

“Hope is something that is demanded of us; it is not, then, a mere reasoned calculation of our chances. Nor is it merely the bubbling up of a sanguine temperament; if it is demanded of us, it lies not in the temperament but in the will... Hoping for what? For delivereance from persecution, for immunity from plague, pestilence, and famine...? No, for the grace of persevering in his Christian profession, and for the consequent achievement of a happy immortality. Strictly speaking, then, the highest exercise of hope, supernaturally speaking, is to hope for perseverance and for Heaven when it looks, when it feels, as if you were going to lose both one and the other.”

“There was a young man who said "GodMust find it exceedingly oddTo think that the treeShould continue to beWhen there's no one about in the quad."Reply:"Dear Sir: Your astonishment's odd;I am always about in the quad.And that's why the treeWill continue to beSince observed by, Yours faithfully, God.”