The ‘frankness’ of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?
Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.
An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness...
Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.
Human intellect is incurably abstract.
The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.
The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism – the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God’s eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.
Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author’s control.