The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some that you wish you never have to think about again. But you do.

Freedom always comes with a price.

Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.