I consider the Christian religion so important, [Jesus is] somebody I can totally rely on in my own mind.

Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it's the parts that I do understand.

Religion, culture, education are all things that sound wonderful in theory. In practice, however, they are not so wonderful.

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.

Don't beg anybody for anything, especially love.

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

But in the spiritual world, degrees and vast learning don't matter. They don't necessarily prevent insight, but they can easily get in the way. God values a humble heart, and He delights to teach those who will say to Him, "Lord, I don't get it. Will You help me?

He takes up men who have come to an end of themselves, and whose trust and confidence is not in themselves but in God.