The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.
The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.
Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.
Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.
One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.
Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will.
Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.
We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.
Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
Jesus Christ did not say, ‘Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.’
The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.
I’d sooner live among people who don’t cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.
There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.
The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other...
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It’s like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.
You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.