How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs.
Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don’t stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there’s no reason why I should ever stop.
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.
The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn’t stayed put and all has to be done over again.
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.
Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.
Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description.
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.
The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.
Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.
Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.
One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.
Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will.