Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose..

You Too? I thought I was the only one..

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that..

I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge..

The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent….

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years..

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity..

Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved ….

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for ….

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work..

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist..

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I….

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and th….

Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easil….

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man..

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior..

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours..

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort..

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to….

When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord, make me chaste,'….

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait..