God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

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.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.