If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured.