If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.