It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.