Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons--marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.