God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.