I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore, cannot be expected to live Christian lives. There ought to be two distinct kinds of marriage: one governed by the State with rules enforced on all citizens, the other governed by the Church with rules enforced by her on her own members." --about the only statement i agree with in this book

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.