Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.