I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being too much like all the other religions; Protestantism of being insufficiently like a religion at all. Hence Plato, with his transcendent Forms, is the doctor of Protestants; Aristotle, with his immanent Forms, the doctor of Catholics.

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.