The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the game of love goes on. Hold it, and the game is over. That is the difference between Heaven and Hell.

A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions - not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless.

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

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

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.