Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species - preference for man simply because we are men - is not sentiment, then what is?

You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.

The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. Hence the new name 'leaders' for those who were once 'rulers'. We are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. There is nothing left of which we can say to them, 'Mind your own business.' Our whole lives are their business.