Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.

Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.