To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

I desired dragons with a profound desire.

That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.