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?

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.

Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.