Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.