It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power -- it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.

But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.