If we had applied in the past the Christian principles of Christian noninvolvement now being thrust upon us, we might have a flourishing slave trade today, as well as many other social iniquities that were abolished (or at least modified) by persons of great religious and moral convictions.

Without justice, what are kingdoms but great gangs of bandits?

To pretend that Christianity was intended to stereotype existing forms of government and society, and protect them against change, is to reduce it to the level of Islamism and Brahminism. It is precisely because Christianity has not done this that it has been the religion of the progressive portion of mankind.

Writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their nightmare fancies are hopelessly out of date. A vast, air-conditioned, neon-lighted, glass-and-chromium broiler-house begins to take shape, in which geneticists select the best stocks to fertilise, and watch over the developing embryo to ensure that all possibilities of error and distortion are eliminated.

In contemporary society our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds.

All too often the Christian response has been limited to another conference, while the secularist elite is actively engaged in real events.

I never say that civilization is going to the dogs. I still have some respect for dogs.

What a father says to his children will not be heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself.

The followers of Jesus are to be different — different from both the nominal church and the secular world, different from both the religious and the irreligious. The Sermon on the Mount is the most complete delineation anywhere in the New Testament of the Christian value-system, ethical standard, religious devotion, attitude to money, ambition, life-style and network of relationships — all of which are totally at variance with those of the non-Christian world. And this Christian Counterculture is the life of the kingdom of God, a fully human life indeed but lived out under the divine rule.

Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility.