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.

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.