A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's - not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.