If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.

To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.