“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.”
“Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.”
“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”
“Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”
“The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.”
“If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.”
“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.”
“It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.”
“Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!”
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”
“God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”
“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”
“I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
“Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.”
“I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else.”
“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that morn.''”
“The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.”
“The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.”
“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.”
“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
“The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.”
“If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a ''wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?”