Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.

We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.