A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.

Father! Can I box him? Please!

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.