The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them.

Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden.

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.