You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.