Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.