If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
