You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.