If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world....No doubt pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. it removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of the rebel soul.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.