Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.