A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.

The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.