A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.

Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.

The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.

And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.