Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

I love looking at pictures of nebulas and reading articles about black holes and dark matter - I always tie it into spirituality.

It is possible to call God 'Lord,' to feel emotionally connected to faith, to do the altruistic things and still not want God.

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.