The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the 'right' notes and the 'wrong' ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The Moral Law is not any one instinct or set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts.

Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.