The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.

Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world.

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.