The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Excerpts:“The gospel is not just the ABCs of Christianity, but the A to Z.”“The extravagant, spendthrift love of God is the most profound reality in the universe.”“The gospel is not religion or irreligion, morality or immorality, moralism or relativism, conservatism or liberalism. It is something else entirely.”

Excerpts:“Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn’t mean I orchestrate the tragedies.”“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat.”“The real underlying flaw in your life is that you don’t think that I am good.”

Excerpts:“The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.”“If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry…

Excerpt: “What matters supremely is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it—the fact that He knows me.”Excerpt: “Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life’s problems fall into place of their own accord.”

I have been passionate about books my entire life. In grade school, my teacher assigned a series of reports on the provinces of Canada. Each week, I wrote one report, and by the end of the term, I gathered them all, added a table of contents and a title page, and bound them with yarn….

Excerpts:“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”“To know God is at once the easiest and the most difficult thing in the world.”“God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.”