I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.