You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

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.