A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

The dreadful joy Thy Son has sentIs heavier than any care;We find, as Cain his punishment,Our pardon more than we can bear.

Man may behold what ugliness he likes if he is sure that he will not worship it; but there are some so weak that they will worship a thing only because it is ugly. These must be chained to the beautiful. It is not always wrong even to go, like Dante, to the brink of the lowest promontory and look down at hell. It is when you look up at hell that a serious miscalculation has probably been made.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.

Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.