It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.

Obedience is the key that opens every door.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?