There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

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

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

Father! Can I box him? Please!

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.