No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather!

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.