The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.