He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
Ah, you’ve come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain’t it?
In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.
But Pride always means enmity – it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.
It is better to forget about yourself altogether.
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.
A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.
Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?
He cannot “tempt” to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.
Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.
If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.
It doesn’t really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist’s chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.
If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.
Life isn’t all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.
Enemy-occupied territory – that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.
It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.