Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.