Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

Things never happen the same way twice.