Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition.

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.