We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof 'God did it' and 'I did it' are both true descriptions.