Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.

If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.

Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.

When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.