Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.