You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the sort of thing my friend got in the desert. Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God--experiences compared with which many thrills of pious feelings you and I are likely to get on our own are very elementary and very confused. And secondly, if you want to get any further you must use the map.

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.