Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs