Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

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

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.