It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.