To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself.

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.