Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

You can't just go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad!

All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.