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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.


Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.


Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.


Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.


Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.


Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.


God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.


I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.


If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.


If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.


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.


Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.


Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.


Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.


Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.


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.


There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."


You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.