It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world.