“It does not matter how small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. … Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

“The completeness of pardon for past offence and the integrity of character that belong to the justified life, are woven together into an impenetrable mail”