The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the précis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.

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