There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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.'
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratifie...
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.
Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debat...
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.