Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts.

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.