And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.