My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore, cannot be expected to live Christian lives. There ought to be two distinct kinds of marriage: one governed by the State with rules enforced on all citizens, the other governed by the Church with rules enforced by her on her own members." --about the only statement i agree with in this book

Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

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

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

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.