If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.

The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.

Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the sort of thing my friend got in the desert. Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God--experiences compared with which many thrills of pious feelings you and I are likely to get on our own are very elementary and very confused. And secondly, if you want to get any further you must use the map.

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.