Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.
If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.
Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.
A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.
When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.
The only thing one can usually change in one’s situation is oneself. And yet one can’t change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.
The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.
Above all else, the devil can not stand to be mocked.
In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.
Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.
I’m not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering.
The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.
Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us – an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof ‘God did it’ and ‘I did it’ are both true descriptions.
Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.
Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.
The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.
We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.
Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.
What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.
The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.