Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be forced to use it in another way-to find the Word in it...to re-live, while we read, the whole Jewish experience of God's gradual and graded self-revelation, to feel the very contentions between the Word and the human material through which it works.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you!