There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

The longest way round is the shortest way home

I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.