Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.