A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying.

We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious.

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.