The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.

The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus in a woman's body.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.