War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.

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

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.