One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.