We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.