Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

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.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.