Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

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.

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.