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…

- Maude Royden

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

- Maude Royden

War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is not the means by which ideals are impo…

- Maude Royden

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

- Maude Royden

It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference in the spiritu…

- Maude Royden

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

- Maude Royden

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

- Maude Royden

The corruption of the best is the worst.

- Maude Royden

The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wish…

- Maude Royden