There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.

Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.