Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.

Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.