Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

Tea should be taken in solitude.

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.