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.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

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

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

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

The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.