If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.

Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and tastes, and all the animals and vegetables, are things that God 'made up out of His head' as a man makes up a story. But it also thinks that a great many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and that God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again.