The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think the convention a silly one. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty-except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all. A mature palate will probably not much care for crème de menthe: but it ought still to enjoy bread and butter and honey.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.