If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.

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.

All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either [Satan] or God will say "mine" of each thing that exists, and specially of each man.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.

Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.