Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.