If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.