When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason.

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

Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

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

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.