“Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!”

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.

What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.

A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.

Great peace is found in little busy-ness.

The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.