The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.