We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.

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

The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.