There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull.

What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.