This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He has disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is…

This is the terrible fix we are in. If the universe is not governed by an absolute goodness, then all our efforts are in the long run hopeless. But if it is, t…

At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of the morning, but they do not make us fresh an…

Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

I hope you're not leading a double life, pretending to be wicked while being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.