'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.

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

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.

If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.