True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)