All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.