Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made.

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.