What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.