The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.

The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?