The corruption of the best is the worst.

The corruption of the best is the worst.

we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame.

There is a choice before us as people who live in a great world, so knit together that even America cannot stand quite outside it, or act as though it were situated somewhere on the moon! That choice is a choice - let me put it quite brutally - between heaven and hell. ... But it is not a choice between a heaven or a hell beyond the grave; it is a choice between making heaven or making hell on this side of the grave, and in this world, here and now.

The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.

We cannot break God's laws - but we can break ourselves against them.

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.