Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.