One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

For me the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend but often those which meet the peculiar wants the natural thirst of his mind and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

It is not short of amazing the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar intense vital spirit if you will that I have never felt before in any strike.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.