It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

Father! Can I box him? Please!

The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.

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.