The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

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

Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.