The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

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.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.