Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers... Jesus Christ did not say "Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right." The Gospel is something completely different. In fact, it is directly opposed to the world.

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.