The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

Things always work according to their nature.

Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.