I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.