"The point of this book, in other words, is that the next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be reall…"

"When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her childr…"

"Now the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it. But the next best is to be far enough aw…"

"It is exactly when the boy gets far enough off to see the giant that he sees that he really is a giant. It is exactly…"

"But the Church, being a highly practical thing for working and fighting, is necessarily a thing for men and not merel…"

"George Wyndham once told me that he had seen one of the first aeroplanes rise for the first time and it was very wond…"

"Out of some dark forest under some ancient dawn there must come towards us, with lumbering yet dancing motions, one o…"

"I say it is better to see a horse as a monster than to see it only as a slow substitute for a motor-car. If we have g…"

"Now, as it is with the monster that is called a horse, so it is with the monster that is called a man. … the really d…"

"There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk 'round the whole world til…"