And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

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

An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.