A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.