A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.