"But in adversity, intelligence alone cannot sustain hope. Ultimately, hope can be sustained only by finding purpose in adversity, by imposing a pattern on the fortuitous disasters of existence. Human beings, if force to it, will compromise their intelligence to preserve their hope."

"All living things sustain each other. All living things depend upon death not as an end, an absolute completion, but as a beginning of a new rhythm, a way of fulfillment in passing on the restless force of life."

"All fanaticism springs from the religious impulse."

"For mankind may survive and live without machines, and still be civilised. But without compassion, the human race can only elaborate upon the futile cunning and the barren intelligence of the great apes."

"How does one objectively define madness ?"

"But it may be that there is happiness in the very things we rejected - in work and responsibility. In the rearing of children and in the challenge of permanent love."

"It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively."

"It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure."

"Thus, ultimately, there never could be an absolute end; just as there never could have been an absolute beginning. There could only be a continuous unfolding."

"Those who look for death have to wait patiently till death finds those who look."

"He who expects little is rarely disappointed."

"Only ideals are dangerous."

"Perhaps justified violence is better than peace at any price."

"It is an inflexible law that all living things must seek to dominate their environment."

"There is only the eternal serial moment of now. It contains the total pattern, the complete history."

"Should the memory of the world but fall asleep, what a fair of mad beasts would the earth be! And surely much the madder for the tongue; since he that forgets himself in his tongue gives another cause to remember him either with neglect or offence. In all that does belong to man, you cannot find a greater wonder. What a treasury of all things in the life of man! What a record, what journal of all!"

"Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad: and others are so credulous, as they believe they all are good. At first, woman was created man s equal; the difference was in the sex: other wise, they both were Man. If we argue from the text, that male and female made man: and so the man being put first, was worthier; I answer, so the evening and the morning were the first day: yet few will think, the night the better."

"Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there."

"Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand."

"Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves."

"Dear Lord! while we adoring pay Our humble thanks to Thee, May every heart with rapture say,— "The Saviour died for me!""

"He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die."

"On Thee alone my hope relies, Beneath Thy cross I fall; My Lord! my Life! my Sacrifice! My Saviour! and my All!"

"Let the sweet hope that Thou art mine, My life and death attend; Thy presence through my journey shine, And crown my journey's end."

"Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man."

"I know that my Redeemer liveth."

"Are we silent to Jesus? Think! Have you nothing to ask Him? Nothing to thank Him for? Nothing to praise Him for? Nothing to confess? Oh, poor soul, go back to Bethlehem — to Gethsemane, to Calvary, and remember at what a cost the vail before the Holies was rent in twain that thou mightest enter it."

"Deny thyself, take up thy cross, and follow me. This is war, not peace. It is battle declared against the world, the flesh, and the devil. In me said Christ, "ye have peace,"—not in the world; there is no promise of it there."

"Give me a baptism of glowing love, Thy power and presence wheresoe'er I rove; And my last prayer, all other prayers above — Oh, give to me More of Thyself, Lord Jesus: more of Thee!"

"The thief upon the cross and the beloved John were alike complete in Christ."

"The disciple whom Jesus loved leaned on His bosom. Dear friend, where are you?"

"I have never committed the least matter to Him that I have not had reason for endless praise."

"Before I knew the Lord, my love for children led me to desire to write for them and those who educated them, keenly feeling my own need of sympathy in childhood, and still smarting from the loveless surroundings of a delicate organisation and uncomprehended mind."

"Fellowship with Jesus lies not alone in pleasurable emotions; you must learn it in suffering and in service."

"Just in proportion as the soul is in fellowship with the Lord Jesus, in communion with His will, shall we trace His leadings, hear His voice, and understand in part."

"Nothing that the law-makers or the law-breakers or the MCC or the Board of Control or any conferences or county committees or pressmen or captains or players can do to it or have done to it over the years - nothing can affect cricket's basic worth or irresistible attraction."