We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.