We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father-that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.