Your heart is like an infinitely large hole, and only God is big enough to fill it.

All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).

The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.