A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves 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.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.