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.”
Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything by it.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour whatever he does whoever he is.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
Though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.
True friends … face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.
True friends … face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.
True friends … face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.
True friends … face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.
True friends … face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.
True friends … face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.
True friends … face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.
True friends … face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.
True friends … face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.
Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope soft underfoot without sudden turnings without milestones without signposts.
Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him.
A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.
Prayer in the sense of petition asking for things is a small part of it confession and penitence are its threshold adoration its sanctuary the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It’s not the sort of comfort they supply there.
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour whatever he does whoever he is.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour whatever he does whoever he is.
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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.
What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
‘Good English’ is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
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.’
There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.