A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

In our adversity, God shouts to us.

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.