Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.