If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.

I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

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

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.