The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary.
The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty.
You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues.
God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say seeing? there are n...
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other.
When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and...
The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical value: the essence of myth being that it should have no taint of allegory to the maker and yet should
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
The hall is a place to wait in, a place from which to try the various doors, not a place to live in. For that purpose the worst of the rooms (whichever that may be) is, I think, preferable. It is true...
As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repair...
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
No people find each other more absurd than lovers
God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can'...
You can never be really sure of how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you.
Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.
There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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