“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”

“His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and he had neither peasant shrewdne...”

“The physical sciences, good and innocent in themselves, had already... begun to be warped, had been subtly manoeuvred in a certain direction. Despair of objective truth had been increasingly...”