Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

But we must not stop with the cultivation of a tough mind. The gospel also demands a tender heart. ... What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of toughmindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hardheartedness?

It is an overflowing love, which seeks nothing in return. Theologians would say that it is the love of God operating in the human heart. And when one rises to love on this level, he is able to love the person who does the evil deed, while hating the deed that the person does.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.