Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change #‎ God - it changes me.

We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.