The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.
Much is expected from those to whom much is given.
Isn’t it funny the way some combinations of words can give you – almost apart from their meaning – a thrill like music?
Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.
One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.
In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.
In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.
Gratitude exclaims, very properly, ‘How good of God to give me this.’
This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.
The beauty of life, is that you don’t have to be modernly beautiful to live it.
All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.
Sometimes fairy stories may say best what’s to be said.
To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.
Why must holy places be dark places?
Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.
We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.
It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.
The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.
We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.
One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.