Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.