of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.

Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.