When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.