We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.

Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.

The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their own sense of importance by criticizing others as a matter of principle. Yet within this community, criticism was a mark of respect and commitment.

Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.

If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.

The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble