The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.