Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing in common except want of a spouse: but there is a great difference between a spouse-to-be and a spouse lost.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.