I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.
Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I trembled on recognizing the same unmistakable aroma coming from the writings of Dante and Bunyan, Thomas Aquinas and William Law.
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power.
If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call ‘disease’ can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.
Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.
It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.
Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.
Please will you do my job for me.
I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.
Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.
For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.
The Christian idea of ‘putting on Christ’ is the whole of Christianity.
The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.
There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord’s own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason.
Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.
Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people’s religions, he is in a bad condition.