Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house.

If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo.

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.

Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare would hit back.

There's no doctor in a white coat that's going to save you, or a system or a pill - it's always going to be you and the choices that you make.

I don't have to forgive you, Cath said. It's not like that with you. You're just in with me. Always. No matter what happens.

we're responsible for our own lives.

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.