Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.