you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.