It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out ... » Go

We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself. ... » Go

You have gone far wrong. Thirst was made for water, inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor ... » Go

Only the Greatest of all can make Himself small enough to enter Hell. For the higher a thing is, the lower it can descend — man ... » Go

The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own ... » Go

“No, Frank, not here”, said the Lady. “Listen to reason. Did you think joy was created to live always under that threat? Always defenseless against those who ... » Go

I can promise you none of these things. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, ... » Go

“Son”, he said, “ye cannot in your present state understand eternity”; when Anodos looked through the door of the Timeless, he brought no message back. But ye ... » Go

When I accept Theology I may find difficulties, at this point or that, in harmonizing it with some particular truths which are imbedded in the ... » Go

I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it. That is not the ... » Go

Then comes the real shock. Among these Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God. He claims ... » Go

There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make ... » Go

Then comes the real shock. Among these Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God. He claims ... » Go

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great ... » Go

Do not be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think is ... » Go

You will find this again and again about anything that is really Christian: every one is attracted by bits of it and wants to pick out those ... » Go

Now 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, ... » Go

We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must ... » Go

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity, with people who ... » Go

There are progressions in which the last step is sui generis — incommensurable with the others — and in which to go the whole way ... » Go

Sehnsucht is “the longing for that unnameable something, the desire for which pierces us like a rapier at the smell of a bonfire, the sound of wild ... » Go