Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

Reject hatred without hating.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time. You can't analyze anything and experience it simultaneously.

The word 'entertain' means to hold someone's attention, and what we want is a faith that is vibrant and alive and beautiful and real.

There's a wonderful woodland, spiritual song I wrote in Undercliff in Lyme Regis, and I used to walk up there with my dog and always come back with an idea.