The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.