The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.