Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter. A good many different theories have been held as to how it works; what all Christians are agreed on is that it does work.

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?