What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the sort of thing my friend got in the desert. Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God--experiences compared with which many thrills of pious feelings you and I are likely to get on our own are very elementary and very confused. And secondly, if you want to get any further you must use the map.

The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.