Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.

Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.