Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.