The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.