"Enemy-occupied territory-that is what this world is." (46)
"To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?" (59)
"the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts-we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body." (64)
"Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again." (101)
"That is the whole point. For the first time we saw a real man. One tin soldier-real tin, just like the rest-had come fully and splendidly alive." (180)
"But we must not suppose that even if we succeeded in making everyone nice we should have saved their souls. A world of nice people, content in thier own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be jus as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might even be more difficult to save." (216)
"It is when I turn to Christ, when I give myself up to His Personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own...Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it." (226)
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