Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.

In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.