We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

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 see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be.

At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.