Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.

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.

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.