The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

Selfishness has never been admired.

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'