The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.

Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.