I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.

So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love", and look on things as if man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. "Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest "well pleased".