I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.