Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.
Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.
You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.
Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.
I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.
All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.
We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.
The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.
Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
A man can’t be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.
Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.
When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development –.
When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.
It’s not a question of God ‘sending’ us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.