People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

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

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.

Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.

History is a story written by the finger of God.