Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

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

I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.

Only real risk passes the reality of faith.