The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.

Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.