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.

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.

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.

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

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

After a full belly all is poetry.

Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn't necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps.

A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

When you judge others, the issue is almost always with you.

The audiences are really different in general. Even in the same country or in the same city, from one venue to another, the audiences can be totally different.

There is no amount of bad news that the markets cannot see past.

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.