We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.

The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

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