Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and tastes, and all the animals and vegetables, are things that God 'made up out of His head' as a man makes up a story. But it also thinks that a great many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and that God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.