That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to a beautiful suprème de sole, with the caviare in boats, and the croûtons and the jolly little twists of potato and all the gadgets - I could cry. But there it is, don't you know.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.