As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.