We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.