If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

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

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will