It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the opposite of number." Nancy looked up from the cards. "Got you, aunt," she said. "What about ten? Nought's a number there - it's part of ten." "Well, if you say that any mathematical arrangement of one and nought really makes ten - " Sibyl smiled. "Can it possibly be more than a way of representing ten?"

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.