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)

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.

There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word "doctrine," as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.