Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works.

You people have no imagination!

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.

In worship, God imparts himself to us.

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.