It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power -- it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.