One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.