The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.

The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

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.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.