"You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

"A man who jibbed at authority in other things as some people do in religion would have to be content to know nothing all his life."

"The bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but to be cured... Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices."

"We must get over wanting to be needed: in some goodish people, specially women, that is the hardest of all temptations to resist."

"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints."