Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.

Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.

Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.